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Adobe's Ben Forta on ColdFusion 9, CF Adoption Trends

DZone recently caught up with Ben Forta, ColdFusion guru and renowned book author to discuss the state of the ColdFusion market, CF adoption trends, and the...

0 replies - 1396 views - 11/17/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Released

Adobe has announced that AIR 1.5.2 is now available for download. Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is a minor update that includes bug fixes related to reliability,...

0 replies - 650 views - 08/03/09 by CodeJustin in News

Silverlight A Flash Competitor Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than...

0 replies - 1817 views - 07/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 3341 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News

Why AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight & Why It May Be Bad News for Microsoft and Apple

Adobe’s release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point.And that’s...

3 replies - 2645 views - 03/07/08 by Tim Negris in News

The Man Who Set Twitter Free

DZone sits down with Aaron West, the man who set Twitter free of the browser. Aaron is a long time ColdFusion, Flash and Flex developer who created twitterAIR,...

0 replies - 4828 views - 03/07/08 by Dan Wilson in Articles

Adobe Fires a Shot Across The Bow

For those new to Rich Internet Applications, there is a War of the Platforms taking place right now. Users are demanding more intuitive applications, increased...

0 replies - 3337 views - 02/25/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

Wrong bet: Flex 3 and AIR have been released... today!

One month ago, I tried to guess a release date for Flex 3 based on some hints by Serge Jespers. As a matter of fact, I was a little bit too optimistic with my...

0 replies - 414 views - 02/25/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Flex is in the Air

Reading about it in the new edition of the German Typo3 Magazine TN3 I had a look at hype! for AIR news. I found a post about a Firebug-like tool available for...

0 replies - 2358 views - 02/24/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Learn more about the AIR, ColdFusion and the Spry Javascript Framework

I am always interested in tutorials. I love to learn new things. In my travels recently, I found a good set of tutorials on over at Gary Gilbert's blog. Gary...

0 replies - 2112 views - 01/30/08 by Dan Wilson in News

Penetration in the AIR

In my humble opinion, Adobe has done a great job in encouraging developers to consider AIR as a desktop application development platform. Applications are...

7 replies - 1300 views - 01/30/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Flex 3 to be released February 12th, 2008?

I attended an excellent conference today in Gent university, which was part of Adobe Flex 3 pre-release tour. And even though neither James Ward nor Serge...

1 replies - 829 views - 01/26/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Adobe AIR/Flex 3 prerelease by Ben Forta in North Carolina

Last night, Ben Forta came to Cary, North Carolina to showcase the soon to be released Flex 3 and AIR products from Adobe. Flex Builder 3 is a compelling...

1 replies - 3407 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

Nice Flex Framework Roundup

Moxie Zhang, over at InfoQ writes about Open Source Flex frameworks.There are 7 listed frameworks, some of which are pure AS3 frameworks. This means you can...

0 replies - 553 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

Connect to Native .Net libraries though the Adobe AIR platform

One advantage C# has over Java is the ability to reach deep within the host Window OS and access processes and functionality. Our best information indicates...

0 replies - 408 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs